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Another is an American who has built a rambling bastille of words in which meanings are thrown into dungeons, to be reached only through endless labyrinths of painstaking prose.

From Time Magazine Archive

He declared that France "must not become a prisoner in the great bastille over which would float the Anglo-Saxon flags."

From Time Magazine Archive

But when it came, Youlou's exit had all the revolutionary trimmings, including a storming of the local bastille and a mob outside the palace howling for bread.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

From Time Magazine Archive

The good result of this provision was manifested on a memorable occasion, when the duke of Exeter was captain of the city of Paris, and Fastolfe captain of the bastille of St. Anthoine.

From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown

Now is the crisis in which to test the remarkable admission of M. Duchatel, in May, '45, that the bastilles of Paris were designed to 'fortify order.'

From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

The bastilles are armed, and those of Montrouge and Aubervilliers are provisioned.

From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

As Joan had calculated, the garrisons of the other bastilles, to the number of from eight to ten thousand men, decamped in haste during the very first night that followed the capture of the Tournelles.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue

The chiefs of the besieged resolved to begin on the morrow a combined attack upon the English bastilles which surrounded the palace; but Joan was not in their counsels.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black

My counsel doth tell me to go against the English; but I know not whether against their bastilles or against this Fascot.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black